But If you want to use it on Azure, you have few choices, Nuget has a Elmah for Azure Tables. Now if you are like me, you are using Windows Azure to host your Asp.net Web API app (and MVC app as well), with the newest edition of Sql Azure as your database backend. Now there is a Nuget package for Elmah using Sql Server, but the script that is provided with the package to provision the SQL database with the necessary tables and stored procedures is marked up for Sql 8 and SQL 8 compatibility… which doesn’t work with SQL Azure database functionality.
Here is the solution I came up with, the modified SQL script that can be used to provision a SQL Azure database for Elmah support.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ELMAH_Error]
(
[ErrorId] UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NOT NULL,
[Application] NVARCHAR(60) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[Host] NVARCHAR(50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[Type] NVARCHAR(100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[Source] NVARCHAR(60) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[Message] NVARCHAR(500) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[User] NVARCHAR(50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[StatusCode] INT NOT NULL,
[TimeUtc] DATETIME NOT NULL,
[Sequence] INT IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL,
[AllXml] NTEXT COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL
)
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ELMAH_Error] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_ELMAH_Error] PRIMARY KEY ([ErrorId])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ELMAH_Error] ADD
CONSTRAINT [DF_ELMAH_Error_ErrorId] DEFAULT (NEWID()) FOR [ErrorId]
GO
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_ELMAH_Error_App_Time_Seq] ON [dbo].[ELMAH_Error]
(
[Application] ASC,
[TimeUtc] DESC,
[Sequence] DESC
)
GO
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------
STORED PROCEDURES
------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[ELMAH_GetErrorXml]
(
@Application NVARCHAR(60),
@ErrorId UNIQUEIDENTIFIER
)
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
SELECT
[AllXml]
FROM
[ELMAH_Error]
WHERE
[ErrorId] = @ErrorId
AND
[Application] = @Application
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[ELMAH_GetErrorsXml]
(
@Application NVARCHAR(60),
@PageIndex INT = 0,
@PageSize INT = 15,
@TotalCount INT OUTPUT
)
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE @FirstTimeUTC DATETIME
DECLARE @FirstSequence INT
DECLARE @StartRow INT
DECLARE @StartRowIndex INT
SELECT
@TotalCount = COUNT(1)
FROM
[ELMAH_Error]
WHERE
[Application] = @Application
-- Get the ID of the first error for the requested page
SET @StartRowIndex = @PageIndex * @PageSize + 1
IF @StartRowIndex <= @TotalCount
BEGIN
SET ROWCOUNT @StartRowIndex
SELECT
@FirstTimeUTC = [TimeUtc],
@FirstSequence = [Sequence]
FROM
[ELMAH_Error]
WHERE
[Application] = @Application
ORDER BY
[TimeUtc] DESC,
[Sequence] DESC
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SET @PageSize = 0
END
-- Now set the row count to the requested page size and get
-- all records below it for the pertaining application.
SET ROWCOUNT @PageSize
SELECT
errorId = [ErrorId],
application = [Application],
host = [Host],
type = [Type],
source = [Source],
message = [Message],
[user] = [User],
statusCode = [StatusCode],
time = CONVERT(VARCHAR(50), [TimeUtc], 126) + 'Z'
FROM
[ELMAH_Error] error
WHERE
[Application] = @Application
AND
[TimeUtc] <= @FirstTimeUTC
AND
[Sequence] <= @FirstSequence
ORDER BY
[TimeUtc] DESC,
[Sequence] DESC
FOR
XML AUTO
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[ELMAH_LogError]
(
@ErrorId UNIQUEIDENTIFIER,
@Application NVARCHAR(60),
@Host NVARCHAR(30),
@Type NVARCHAR(100),
@Source NVARCHAR(60),
@Message NVARCHAR(500),
@User NVARCHAR(50),
@AllXml NTEXT,
@StatusCode INT,
@TimeUtc DATETIME
)
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
INSERT
INTO
[ELMAH_Error]
(
[ErrorId],
[Application],
[Host],
[Type],
[Source],
[Message],
[User],
[AllXml],
[StatusCode],
[TimeUtc]
)
VALUES
(
@ErrorId,
@Application,
@Host,
@Type,
@Source,
@Message,
@User,
@AllXml,
@StatusCode,
@TimeUtc
)
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO